Al-Bakbuk (crater)

EncelGeo-Crater
name=Al-Bakbuk
picture=
Al-Bakbuk (center) as seen
by the "Cassini" spacecraft on March 9, 2005
location=6.6°N, 188.5°W
diameter=9.0 km
depth=
discoverer="Cassini"
naming=Al-Bakbuk; The Barber's first brother

Al-Bakbuk is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Al-Bakbuk was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 6.6° North Latitude, 188.5° West Longitude, and is 9 kilometers across. Since the crater's formation, numerous north-south trending fractures cut across the crater, forming canyons several hundred meters deep along the crater's rim.

Al-Bakbuk is named after one of the barber's six brothers in the "The Hunchback's Tale" in "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights".